UITableViewCell not showing detailTextLabel.text - Swift

Question

The detail (subtitle) text does not appear. The data are available, though, because when a println() call is added, it prints Optional(\"data\") to the console with the expe

Answer 1

Same issue here (from what I've read, perhaps a bug in iOS 8?), this is how we worked around it:

1. Delete the prototype cell from your storyboard

2. Remove this line:

var cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("cell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as UITableViewCell

3. Replace with these lines of code:

let cellIdentifier = "Cell"

var cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier(cellIdentifier) as? UITableViewCell
if cell == nil {
    cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.Value2, reuseIdentifier: cellIdentifier)
}

Update for Swift 3.1

let cellIdentifier = "Cell"

var cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: cellIdentifier)
if cell == nil {
    cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.value2, reuseIdentifier: cellIdentifier)
}

Update for Swift 4.2 - Simplified

let cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCell.CellStyle.value2, reuseIdentifier: "cellId")